Mark Mazzeml
Friday, August 05. 201i {l.1f1PM
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WASHINGTON
Barack Obama must wonder sometimes his luck has run out.
Maybe used all 2008.
Yes, canl has devolved into Hey, still mig
When said change can believe in, didnt say change can believe tomorrow/ told
audience Chicago fundraiser Wednesday. Not change can believe next week. knew this
was going take time, because got this big, messy, tough democracy.
True enough, but not FDR-inspiring deflated and desperate nation facing credit downgrade and
higher borrowing rates.
Barack Obama blazed like Luke Skywalker 2008, but never leamed channel the Force. now
the Tea Party has run oil with his light saber.
The dissonance his promise and his reality jarrl
When had power, didnt use it. wanted transiormationa president like Ronald Reagan,
but failed understand that Fieagan strategic shows strength allowed him keep the whip hand
without raising his voice.
And now, just when the high school principal the Oval Oitlce has been browbeating Congress help
create jobs, once more distracted from that task himself, tries save his own job. goes fundraisers tell people stick with him, but seems trying reassure himself. have admit, said Chicago, didnt know how steep the climb was going be. the large fundraisert are, tried reassure disillusioned liberals about unfinished business help
those need. Later. $85,800-a head dinner, defended the unpopular debt package like fiscal
conservative.
The president talks fondly George Bush senior, just Bush senior does him. Obama thinks the
elder Bush poignant figure because did the right thi breaking his tax pledge fix the deficit,
even though got punished ior with one term. clear that the once cocky Oba feeling that same poignancy about his own presidency. Left
giant pickle the hot-dogging Bush Junior, the president who gloriously made history now stuck
Sisyphus mode. thinks doing the right things crawl out ofW.s mudslide, but ends being castigated the
right socialist, the left conservative, and the middle wobbly.
The one ciear~cui, chesty victory that Obama has had may have come too late for beleaguered public much care.
When the president asked what felt like kill Osa hes low-key and modest, even though
personally refocused the mission capture the 9/11 architect alterw. dropped the ball. has told people what thrill was meet the Team Six Navy Seals and the dog Cairo who pulled
off the hit, noting that they looked less young and fearsome than expected, and more like guys working Home Depot.
But while Obama takes the high road, his aides have made sure there are proxies exuberantiy brag
him.
The White House clearly blessed the dramatic reconstruction the mission Nicholas Schmidle The
New Yorker vividly descriptive about the Seals looks, quotes and thoughts that Schmidle had
clarify after the piece was published that had not actually talked any them.
ltl just say that the SEALS the mission that evening were not the only ones who were listening
their radio communications, Schmidle said, answering readers questions live chat, after taking flak
for leaving some with the impression that had interviewed the heroes when wrote his account that was based their recollections.
The White House also counting the Kathryn Bigeiow and Mark Boat movie version the killing
bin Laden to-shore Obama growing reputation ineffectual. The Sony film the Oscar winning pair
who made The Hun Locker will doubt reflect the president cool, gutsy decision against shaky odds.
Just Obamaland was hoping, the movie scheduled open October 12, 2012 perfectly timed
give home-stretch boost campaign that has grown tougher.
The movlemakers are getting top-level access the most classified mission history from
administration that has tried throw more people jail for leaking classified information than the Bush
administration. was clear that the Obama administration had outsourced the job manning the presidents image Hollywood when Boat got welcomed the upper echelons the Pentagon and showed recently the surprise some military officers C..A. ceremony celebrating the hero Seals.
Just like Obama going for that Mission Accomplished glow (without the suggestive harness.) presidents case, though, something has been accomplished.
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Marie Harf
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